May 27, 2013

Trent J Perrotto Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100 trent j perrotto@nasa gov

MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-085

NASA DISCUSSES CURIOSITY RADIATION FINDINGS

WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a media teleconference at 2:30 p m EDT Thursday, May 30, to present new findings from the Mars Science Laboratory Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) aboard the rover Curiosity

The journal Science has embargoed details until 2 p m May 30

The briefing participants are:

-- Donald M Hassler, RAD principal investigator and program director, Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), San Antonio -- Cary Zeitlin, principal scientist, SwRI -- Eddie Semones, spaceflight radiation health officer, NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston -- Chris Moore, deputy director of advanced exploration systems, NASA Headquarters, Washington

For dial-in information, media representatives should e-mail their name, affiliation and telephone number to Trent Perrotto at trent j perrotto@nasa gov by noon May 30

SwRI and Christian Albrechts University in Kiel, Germany, built RAD with funding from NASA's Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate and Germany's national aerospace research center, Deutsches Zentrum f��r Luft- und Raumfahrt NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif , manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington manages the Mars Exploration Program

Visuals will be posted at the start of the teleconference on NASA's Mars Science Laboratory website at:

http://go nasa gov/curiositytelecon

Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live on NASA's website at:

http://www nasa gov/newsaudio

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